Generate CAD Hook-Up Drawings - Intergraph Smart Instrumentation - Help

A complete hook-up drawing generation scenario is described in the Help topic Hook-Up Drawing Generation.

1. Press F7 to open the Domain Explorer and then expand the hierarchy to the hook-up type level in the Hook-Ups folder.

2. In the tree view pane, select a hook-up type.

3. Select and right-click one or more hook-ups.

   In the Domain Explorer, you can also select hook-up types instead of hook-ups. In this case, you can generate hook-up drawings that belong to all the hook-ups that are assigned to the selected hook-up types.

   To generate CAD Hook-Up drawings in batch mode, you must have selected in the preferences Hook-Ups > CAD file locations > Save drawings automatically, and type a path in the Output drawing folder, field. The software then saves all the selected CAD Hook-Up drawings to this folder and displays the last generated drawing.

4. On the shortcut menu, click Reports > Generate Hook-Up Drawings to display the General tab of the Generate Hook-Up Drawings dialog.

5. From the Generation method list, select CAD.

6. Select the CAD Options tab.

7. If you want to save the generated hook-up drawing as external CAD files, select the Save file in format check box, and then beside the Target folder path box click Browse to specify the folder. To select a folder, you have to select any file that exists in that folder.

   

   • In the Target folder path box, the software displays the default folder you specified on the Preferences dialog, in the Hook-Ups > CAD File Locations page, in the Output drawing folder box.

   • The file format that the software uses when saving a hook-up drawing depends on your CAD application. If you use AutoCAD, the software saves the drawing file in .dwg format. If you select MicroStation, the software saves the drawing file in .dgn format.

   • When using SmartSketch, you can save the drawings in any format available in the list. From the box below Save file in format, select the required format. If you select SmartSketch, the software saves the drawing file in .sym format.

   • The output filename is the same as the hook-up name. If there are any spaces in the hook-up name, the software replaces the space with an underscore ( _ ). The filename ends with an underscore ( _ ) and a two-digit sequence number representing the page number of a multi- page drawing. For example, flow_transmitter_03.dwg.

8. If needed, select Send to plotter or printer to send the generated drawings to the current CAD plotter or printer.

9. If you want to apply the macro functions associated with macros, select Use macro functions.

10. For a multi-page hook-up drawing generation, under Drawing for subsequent pages, select one of the following:

    • Same as first — Allows you to display the generated hook-up drawing on the first page as well as on all the subsequent pages as well.

    • General drawing — Allows you to display the generated hook-up drawing on the first page and the general drawing on all the subsequent pages. The general drawing is a predefined drawing that you specified on the Preferences dialog.

• The software generates a multi-page drawing automatically. If the number of tag numbers associated with the selected hook-up is greater than the number of macros that can be accommodated on the first hook-up drawing page, then all the tag numbers appear on the second page (including those that already appeared on the first page). For a multi-page drawing, you can enter the page number of the first generated page of the hook-up drawing in the Generate from page box. For example, if you enter the value 2 and then generate a hook-up drawing, the first page of the hook-up drawing displays the value 2. A multi-page drawing is a drawing in which the number of tags associated with the current hook-up is larger than the number of macros that can be accommodated in the generated hook-up drawing.

• If your CAD application is SmartSketch, by default, all drawings that you generate have the A3 Wide print sheet size. This print sheet size is defined in the template file pid.igr, which comes shipped with Smart Instrumentation. This file appears in the CADFunc folder, for which you specified the path setting on the Preferences dialog, Hook-Ups > CAD File Locations page. If you want to generate hook-up drawings using a different print sheet size, you must open the pid.igr file in SmartSketch and modify the sheet settings as you require. Note, however, that changes that you make in the pid.igr file affect both hook-up drawings and loop drawings you generate in SmartSketch. If you want the print sheet size of hook-up drawings not to affect the print sheet size of loop drawings, duplicate the CADFunc folder with all its content and define a different path setting preference for loop drawings on the Loop Drawings > CAD File Locations page.

• Smart Instrumentation and the CAD drawing programs required to work with Smart Instrumentation, must be installed on the same machine.

• You can also generate Hook-Up drawings from a Hook-Up EDE view by selecting an EDE View with a column named: Hook-up Name. From the shortcut menu, right-click a value from the column Hook-up Name, and select Reports > Generate Hook-Up Drawings.